Clasp and tag



(No Model.)

MOOSE. OLASP'AND TAG.

No. 416,796. Patented Dec. 10, 1889.

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UNITED STATES,

PATENT OFFICE.

MORIS MOOSE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CLASP AND TAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,796, dated December10, 1889.

Application filed April 15, 1889. Serial No. 307,299. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, MORIS MOOSE, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clasps and Tags, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in clasps and tags; and it consistsin certain peculiarities of the construction and arrangement of theparts and in the novel manner of attaching the same, all of which willbe hereinafter more fully set forth and specifically claimed.

The objects of my invention are to afford a reliable and effective yetsimple and inexpensive means for marking articles-such as fabrics,hosiery, gloves, notions, izc.which may be exposed for sale without thenecessity of pinning or sewing tickets on the articles so exposed forsale or for reference, as is the usual custom, and also enabling themarks to be easily and rapidly attached and detached, and that the sameclasp may be repeatedly used. I attain these objects by the mechanismillustrated in the drawings, and in order to enable others skilled inthe art to which my invention pertains to make and use the same I willnow proceed to describe it, referring to the accompanying drawings, inwhich Figure 1 is a view of a piece of cloth with my clasp and tagattached. Fig. 2 is a View of my clasp before being bent. Fig. 3 is aview of the tag; and Fig. 4. is a sectional end view through the cloth,clasp, and tag.

Similar letters refer to like parts throughout the different views ofthe drawings.

Arepresentsa piece of cloth, fabric, or other material to which my claspB is or may be attached. The clasp B is made of suitable material, size,and form, but preferably of sheet metal and of the form shown in Fig. 2.Near each end of the clasp B, I puncture the material of which the claspmay be made with a pointed instrument and form therein a number ofholes, depressions, or eyelets C C, which depressions or eyelets thusformed have the projections a a, which when pressed against the clothengage therewith, as seen in Fig. 4, and formv a secure fastening. It isobvious that I may indent the metalsufiiciently to form the projectionsa a on the side opposite the indentation, or may pierce the holes enwillbe formed as before, but will have rough or ragged edges which willengage with the cloth or material.

In the drawings I have shown the clasplets having projections a a, yet Ido not wish only one hole or may employ any number. After theclasp-piece is thus provided with depressions and projections it isslightly bent and inserted in the slot Ein the tag D, which tag is madeof any suitable material, size,

slot E, which I preferto form with an enlargement F on the upper sideof. said slot and near the center thereof to admit of the free passageof the projection 01. on the clasp I), and which prevents tearing orstopping in through. Of course I may form the tag with a slotsufficiently wide to allow the projection to pass through withouttouching the edge of the slot; but I prefer to form it with theenlargement, as I am thereby enabled to use a much narrower slot andobtain a larger space for marking purposes on the tag.

The operation of my device is simple and very effective. or depressionsand projections is inserted in the slot E in the tag D, and is then bentand closed on the cloth, with the projections on the inside. The marksare then placed on the tag, and the operation is complete. The claspbeing made of very thin and flexible metal, it is easily bent and closedon the cloth by the fingers, and may be readily removed by prying theends apart and used again, as is apparent.

When it is desired to use my device for securing a tag to hard or almostsolid substances, itwill be necessary to use a thicker metal, and afterthe bend is made in the clasp to drive the projections into thesubstance by a light blow from a hammer; but as the device is designedmore especially for textiles and fabrics the use of the hammer will notbe required.

Having thus fully described my invention,

tirely through the clasp, when the projections piece provided with twodepressions or eye-' to limit myself to this number, as I may use 7 andform, and is provided at one end with a- The clasp having the holes theslots by the projections on their course what I claim as new, and desireto secure by as shown and described, and for the purpose Letters Patent,is

, set forth. I As an improved article of manufacture, a clasp and tagconsisting of the flexible clasp MORIS MOOSE 5 13, having the eyelets 0rdepressions C O and WVitnesses:

projections 00 a, and the tag D, having the slot E, provided withenlargement F, substantially HENRY KOLBE, .ALFRED N. TAGERT.

